Profile: Nick Francis

Letters this month focus on CE marking, particularly CE marking of steel and whether it is possible to CE mark a swing bridge.

Technology will free up structural engineers to be more creative and challenge standardisation as the route to efficiency, says AECOM Director for Buildings and Places, Jon Leach, who is also the new chair of the Institution of Structural Engineers Panel on Digital Workflows and Computational Design.

Hanif Kara is a world-class structural engineer who is more appreciated by those outside his profession than those within it; or that, at least, is how he feels. Jackie Whitelaw talks to a man who wonders if he is too different to be embraced by the establishment.